Basic properties for biological databases: Character development and support. (English) Zbl 0895.92004
Summary: We examine problems and solutions for building a large set of characters for descriptive data derived from published species descriptions. The ideas presented lead in the direction of creating a kind of BioDBMS that can be used to support large integrated biological databases.
MSC:
| 92B10 | Taxonomy, cladistics, statistics in mathematical biology |
| 68U99 | Computing methodologies and applications |
| 68P99 | Theory of data |
| 92-08 | Computational methods for problems pertaining to biology |
| 92B99 | Mathematical biology in general |
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